As we have dicussed in the previous article, Backgammon is a game of talent and pure luck. The goal is to move your checkers safely around the board to your inner board and at the same time your opposing player shifts their checkers toward their home board in the opposing direction. With competing player checkers moving in opposing directions there is going to be conflict and the need for specific techniques at specific times. Here are the two final Backgammon strategies to round out your game.
The Priming Game Strategy
If the aim of the blocking strategy is to hamper the opponents ability to shift their pieces, the Priming Game strategy is to absolutely stop any movement of the opposing player by constructing a prime – ideally 6 points in a row. The opponent’s checkers will either get bumped, or end up in a battered position if he ever tries to leave the wall. The trap of the prime can be built anyplace between point 2 and point eleven in your game board. After you have successfully constructed the prime to block the activity of your opponent, the opponent does not even get to roll the dice, and you move your chips and toss the dice yet again. You’ll win the game for sure.
The Back Game Tactic
The aims of the Back Game technique and the Blocking Game technique are very similar – to hinder your opponent’s positions in hope to boost your chances of winning, but the Back Game strategy relies on alternate tactics to do that. The Back Game technique is commonly used when you are far behind your opponent. To play Backgammon with this tactic, you need to hold two or more points in table, and to hit a blot late in the game. This strategy is more challenging than others to employ in Backgammon seeing as it requires careful movement of your pieces and how the checkers are moved is partially the result of the dice roll.
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